Re: direct rendering with RHL 9 on ATI Rage 128

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On Thursday 03 April 2003 05:34, Mike A. Harris wrote:
> On Wed, 2 Apr 2003, Dave Reed wrote:
> 
> >It's been a while, but I thought RHL 8.0 configured my ATI Rage 128
> >Mobility chipset in my laptop for direct rendering. I just installed
> >RHL 9 and direct rendering is not enabled. The "Enable Hardware 3D
> >Acceleration" checkbox is insensitve when I run
> >redhat-config-xfree86. I have thousands of colors as the option since
> >I believe this chipset/laptop LCD only support 16 bit color.
> 
> Manually enable DRI by editing the X config file and making sure
> the line:
> 
> 	Load "dri"
> 
> ... is present in the modules section.  Our config tool assumes 
> that 3D acceleration is only available on Radeon and matrox I 
> think.  Someone (possibly myself) reported this stupid behaviour, 
> but it seems to have not gotten fixed.  As such the enable-3D 
> feature in the config tool is useless, unless you have one of the 
> few cards the checkbox is enabled for.
> 
> Please file a bug report about this and CC me.


I sent a second mail (although for some reason I didn't get either of
them) indicating that it does work now. I'm not certain what I changed
although I may have initially selected 24 bit color. The checkbox is
still insensitve but I do have direct rendering. Do you still want a
bug report submitted.

Dave



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